Five cows died in Surry County, North Carolina due to the self-cloning, longhorned tick. More than 1000 ticks were found on each cow — “These ticks are known for building intense infestations on animals.” The cause of death was acute anemia, as the cows were drained of blood by the ticks. Asian longhorned ticks were […]
Early Bird Registration has been extended untilJuly 8th! LDA/Columbia CME Conference September 21 & 22, 2019, Hilton Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA. Register Now! Scholarship application due July 14, 2019.
On May 29, 2019, The Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Congressional Town Meeting Sponsored by Congressman Christopher H. Smith (NJ-4) was held in the Wall Township, NJ, Municipal Building. Despite tornado warnings, flash flood warnings with torrential rains, a packed house of more than 200 people attended the three and a half hour event. Wall Mayor Kevin […]
Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons by Kris Newby- excerpt. “This was the beginning of our long journey to hell and back. Paul and I had been bitten by unseen ticks harboring an unknown number of disease-causing organisms. These tick bites would rob us of our good health and send me on an investigation into an almost unimaginable possibility: that we were collateral damage in a biological weapons race that had started during the Cold War.”
May Awareness LDA Guest Blogger Brian Dashore: “How My Differing Childhood Experiences Impacted My Educational Life”…. I clearly recall running at baseball practice when my left leg started to drag. I was only 6 years old, and I just kept trying to run. A burning sensation ran up to my pelvis. My coach thought I pulled a muscle and sent me home … After a battery of tests including nuclear full body bone scans and 20 tubes of blood, they put me in a wheelchair […]
The debate over the prevalence of Lyme disease and whether it exists in a chronic form has raged for decades. Kris Newby’s well researched book provides documented evidence that the suspicions of disease sufferers, their advocates, and treating physicians deserve investigation. The properties of the pathogen itself and its ally, the tick, appear to be […]
The 5th Annual Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education Conference was another success! The conference was held on Friday, April 26th at the Augusta Civic Center, in Augusta, Maine. Admission was free for the all day event. The positive feedback from all who attended, including community partners and exhibitors, was as Paula Jackson Jones, President […]
Welcome to LDA’s New Website! Lots of New Features!! Lyme Disease Association has a fresh new look with the same incredible resources and new updates. Find the resources you need at LymeDiseaseAssociation.org. Updated! ” The ABCs of Lyme Disease” written especially for parents and educators, now online…
Columbia News, April 30, 2019, by Carla Cantor, “When Lyme Disease Doesn’t Go Away” is an interview with Brian A. Fallon, MD, Director of the Columbia University Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center. The article discusses his early career and his work on Lyme beginning in the early 90s and the formation of the Center, […]
A revised complaint has been filed for the Torrey et al v. Infectious Diseases Society of America et al lawsuit initiated in 2017. The initial lawsuit was filed on behalf of Lyme disease patients who say they have been denied care which resulted in harm under existing insurance and medical protocols. Plaintiffs claims include injury […]